Ali Raymi

Ali Raymi (7 December 1973-23 May 2015) was a Colonel of the Yemeni Army and a former boxing world champion, having 25 KOs while being undefeated. Ali Raymi was also a colonel in the military, becoming commander of the Yemeni 3rd Armored Brigade. He was killd in a Saudi Arabian airstrike on 23 May 2015.

Biography
Ali Raymi was born on 7 December 1973, and he later moved to Saudi Arabia, living in Mecca until 1991. He entered the Yemeni Army, and from 2004 to 2007 he was an amateur boxer representing the Yemeni military, having 117 knock-outs with 2 losses. Ali Raymi was known as a loose cannon, breaking cultural norms by selling alcohol, taking part in private unsanctioned fights, and smoking cigarettes, and on 11 November 2013 he set a world record of winning his first 20 professional rounds with a first-round knockout. In 2010, Raymi saw battle for the first time at the First Battle of Lawdar, and he served in the elite Yemeni Republican Guard in counter-terrorist operations. Raymi was killed on 23 May 2015 in a Saudi airstrike on Republican Guard troops in the al-Nahadeen district of Sana'a, dying at the age of 41.